But he insisted he didn’t molest her, even though her jogging shorts had been pulled down. “I didn’t do any of the stuff they said, sexual assault and stuff like that,” he told cops, according to the tape.

He said he then walked home up the bike path, “shaken up,” hoping to get napkins to stop the bleeding from the scratches she’d left on his face.

When asked why he attacked the jogger, Lewis confusingly responded that he killed Vetrano “because a guy moved into my house and the neighbourhood”.

Lewis was arrested six months after the killing when a voluntary cheek swab he gave matched DNA found under the victim's fingernails.

A version of this story originally appeared on New York Post.

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